Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12

and do your level best. That child
had it right when the horses ran away
with the load of wood and he sat upon
it. When asked if he was frightened.
he Said: "No, ! prayed to God and
hung on like a beaver"
RESPECT FO SABBATH.
Again profound respect for the Sab
bath will be a powerful preservative
against evil. God has thrust into the
toll and fatigue of life a r~ecreative day
when the soul is especially to be fed. 1t
is no new tangled notion Of a wild
Drained reformer, but an institution es-
tablished at the beginning. God has
made natural and moral laws so har-
monions that the body as well as the
soul demands this institution. Our
bodies are seven-day clocks, that must
be wound up as often as that or they
will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks
the Sabbath. Inspiration has called it
the Lod's day, and he who devotes it
to the world is guilty of robbery. God
will not let the sin 60 unpublished either
in this world or the world to come.
This is the statement of a man who
had broken the divine enactment
II was engaged in manufacture on
the Lehigh river. On the Sabbath |
used to rest, but never regarded God
in it. One beautiful Sabbath, when
the noise was all hushed. and the day
was all that lo%veliness could make it, /
sat down on my piazza and went to
work %inventing a new shuttle. l
neither stopped to eat or drinktill the
sun went down. BY that time / had
the invention completed. The next
morning ! exhibited it, boosted of my
days work and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but
that Sabbath days work cost me thirty
thousand dollars. We branched out
and enlarged and the curse of heaven
was upon me from that day onward"
THE PENALTY OF VIOLATING GODS
While the divine frown must rest
upon him who tramples upon this
statute, Gods special favor will be
upon that young man who
scrupulously observes it This day,
properly observed, will throw a hal
lowed influence over all the week. The
song, and sermon, and sanctuary will
hold back from presumptuous scenes.
That young man who begins the duties
of life, with either secret or open dis
respect of the holy day, / venture to
prophesy will meet with no prominent
successes. Gods curse will fall upon
his ship, his store, his Office, his
studio, his body, and his soul. The
way of the wicked He turneth upside
down. In one of the old fables it was
said that a wonderful child was born in
Bagdad, and a magician could hear his
footsteps six thousand miles away.
But l can hear in the footsteps of that
young man, on his way to the house of
worship this morning, step not only of
a lifetime of usefulness but the coming
step of eternal JOY of heavens yet mil
lions Of miles away.
Again, a noble ideal and confident
expectation of approximating to it,
will infallibly advance. The artist
completes in his mind the great thought
that he wishes to transfer to the canvas
or the marble before he takes up the
crayon or the chisel. The architect
plans out the entire structure before he
orders the workmen to begin, and
though there may for a long time seem
to be nothing but laundering and rude
ness he has in his mind every Corthin-
THAN wreath and Gothic arch and
Byzantine capital. The poet arranges
the entire plot before he begins to
chime the first canto Of tingling rythms.
And yet, stranger to us, there are men
who attempt to build their character
without knowing whether in the end
it shall be a rude traitors den or a st.
Marks of Venice. Men who begin to
write tho intricate
POEM OF THEIR I'VE
without knowing whether it shall
be a Homer's Odyssey or a
| rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and
| ninety-nine men out of a thousand are
living without any great lifeplot. Boot
ed, and spurred, and plumed, and urg-
Ing their swift courser in the hottest
haste. / come out and ask: ''Halloo.
man; whittier awayP" His response is:
Nowhere Rush into the busy shop
or store of many a one, and taking the
plane out Of the mans hand and laying
down the yard-stick say: "What, man.
is all this about, so much stir and
sweatP" The reply will stumble and
break down between teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be the
following up of the main plan of exist
ence. Let men be consistent. II they
prefer misdeeds to correct courses of
action, then let them draw out tho de-
sign OF ~knavery, ard cruelty and plum
der. Let every days falsehood and
wrong-doing be added as coloring to
the picture. Let bloody deeds red
stripe the canvas, and the clouds of a
wrathful God hang down heavily over
the canvas, ready to break out in clam
orous tempest. Let the waters be
chafed. a froth-tangle. and green with
unreasonable depths. Then take a
torch OF burning pitch and scorch into
the frame of the picture the right name
for it; namely, the
SOULS SUICIDE.
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